"What choice do we have unless we want to freeze to death?" There are signs that the heating-oil shortage may abate this week as an unusually cold winter relents a bit -- temperatures were expected to reach the high 40's today in New York City -- and as refineries' oil deliveries speed up after being slowed by ice and storms on waterways.
In the endeavour for clinically translatable interventions that may abate the course of neurodegenerative disorders, a key step in translation is the development of human in-vitro platforms, for both disease modelling and drug screening.
Diurnal fluctuation in the severity of the dystonia is common, though this may abate with age.
Internet and other social media approaches have potential for even lower costs and are being explored in many studies, but they do have pronounced differences by demographics; this may abate over time as Internet use expands.
(A problem that may abate as the economy slows).
My joy in it may abate with time, but right now I want to launch a small, considerately quiet firework in Gallace's honor.
There have been no announcements when the rain may abate long enough for a match, and the green blobs on the radar appear to be popping up rather randomly.
Although the drag from the trade deficit is likely to increase compared with the end of 1998, and the pace of housing starts may abate or even fall, there are few signs of a serious slowdown.
Not by encouraging design that is counter to the whims of the market (that would be positively un-American), but by inspiring work that might also thrive in economic down times, when the demand for star dust may abate, but a toothbrush, a stapler and a roof over one's head will still be welcome conveniences.
The immigration crisis may abate, but it has already shown the power of government to act arbitrarily overnight sundering families, upending long-set expectations, until all those born as outsiders must imagine themselves here only on sufferance of a senior White House counsellor.
Bill McKibben works our damaged planet Earth through a dimension of time reversal and what might be called the physics of Christian beatitude: The future shall be made past, and the big shall be made small; the global shall be restored to the local; the harm may be undone, the seas may recede, the temperatures may drop, the hurricanes may abate and humanity may be returned to its happier mind.
